Swinging gate.



No. 707,256. Patented Aug. l9, I902. J. W. BEAMES & C. F. HEFFINGTON. SWINGING GATE.

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No. 707,256. Patented Aug. l9, I902. J. w. REAMES.& c. F. HEFFINGTON.

SWINGING GATE.

(Application filed Apr. 24, 1909.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

JonN w. REAMES AND 'OALVINY F. HEFFINGTON, OF CO RLE'Y, ARKANSAS.

SWINGINGGATE;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 707,256, dated August 19, 1902. A Applicatienfiled A ril 251902. serinno, 104,531. on model.)

To ctZZ whom/it hurr /concern:

' Be it known that we, JOHN WREAME and CALVIN F. HEFFINGTON,'CitlZ6nS of the United I State's, residing at Uorley, in the county of L- gan and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSwinging Gates; and we do declare the following to ing on the ground or seated in a vehicle or 4. drawings, the numeral 1 represents a gate .:upon a horse and as .readilyclosed when the person has passed through the gateway, as well as to provide automatic means for looking and unlocking the gate in either of its three positions. I

\Vith, the above and other objects in view,

which will readily appear as'the nature of the invention is better understood, said invention consists in certain 'novelfeatures of construction and combination and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described, defined in theappendedclaims, and illustrated in Figure l is a perspective view showing the gate closed. Fig. 2 is a top plan view SllOWf ing the gate opened in one directionQ Fig.

3 is a vertical section'on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. fl is a horizontal section through the grooved pulley wheel or disk; Fig. 5is a fragmentary face view of the main latch-post, showing the keeper. Y I

Referring now more-particularly to the mounted to swing in either direction upon a I bottom pivot 2 and a top bracket 3, the former extending up fromthe ground or a suitable base and the latter projecting from a .hinging-post 4,and may be of any preferred form and construction to serveas a farm; garden, or other gate. This gate carries "an L-shaped latch-lever '5, pivotally mounted at 6, so that the horizontal arm thereof may swing in a vertical plane. The free end of the said horizontal arm of the 'lever forms a the accom panying drawings, in)

. latch 7 to engage a keeper 7 on themain latch-post 8 and keepers '7 7 on the auxiliary latch-posts 9 9'. The mainfllatoh-post 8 isdisposed opposite the hi-uging-p'ost 4 in the usual manner, while the pos ts 9 9' are arranged in line with and at a suitable distance from the post 4 on opposite sides of the gate. The horizontal and vertical arms of the latchlever are arranged to move in suitable guides 10 and 11 onthe gate.

Fixed to the pivot-post. 12 of the gate is a grooved pulley or disk 13,110 which is centrally secured by a suitable. fastening 14 a continuous wire, cable, or rope 15, the ends of which are reverselypassed or wound one or more times thcrearound and thence extended'to form fiexible'connections 1616, connected to hand-levers 17 17, pivoted to posts 18 18'on opposite sides ofthe gate and adjacent to the latch-posts. By means of these levers the gate "maybe opened and closed from either side of the gateway by a person standing on the ground or'seated in a vehicle or upon a horse'ina manner clearly obvious, the outward movement of the lever 17. causing the gate to swing toward the auxiliarylatch-postt)", while the outward movement of the lever 17 causes the gate to swing in the reverse direction, or toward the auxiliary'latch-post 9.. When the gate is thrown open by either lever, the'operator on passing throughthe gateway operates the other lever to restore the parts totheir normal position and to swing thegate closed, the connections 1 between the levers and pulley eifecting the simultaneous action of both levers, as will be readily understood. Hence a person desirous of passingthrough the gateway would first operate the adjacent lever to swing the gate open and on passing to the other side of other lever consisting of a spring-arm 19, provided with affri'ction-roller 20, which'bears-upon the periphery-of a cam head or disk 21, fixed to or formed integrally with the pulley l3,said cam head or disk having recesses 22, 23, and 24, k equidi'stantly arranged, to receive said roller,

The upper end of the arm 19 is attached to the vertical arm of the latch-lever by a flexible connection 25, which extends through a suitable guide 20, projecting upward from the cam-head. \Vhen the gate is closed, the roller 20 seats itself within the intermediate recess 22 and the latch engages the keeper on the main latclrpost 8, whereby the gate is locked in closed position. \Vhen the lever 17 is operated to swing the gate toward the auxiliary latch-post 9', the cam-head turns and forces the arm 1!) backward, whereby the connection 25 is drawn upon to tilt and release the latch-lever 5 from engagement with the keeper 7 on the main latch-post 8. The gate is then free to swing, and as it moves toward the auxiliary latch-post 9 the roller 20 traverses the edge of the cam until the latch 7 comes immediately above the keeper 7 and the roller snaps into the recess 23, thereby releasing the latch-lever,whereupon the latch 7 drops by gravity into engagement with said keeper. Upon the operation of the lever 17 to swing the gate closed the roller first rides outof the recess 23, causing the arm 19 to tilt the latch 7 out of engagement with the keeper 7, and then as the latch enters the keeper 7 the roller again enters the recess 22 and allows said latch to drop down and engage said keeper. \Vhen the gate is swung in the reverse direction by the lever 17, the friction-roller 20 travels between the recesses 22 and 24 and the latch 7 is engaged with and released from the keepers 7 and 7 in the same manner as described with relation to the cooperation of the latch with said keeper 7 and the keeper 7 Thus it will be seen that the action of the cam pushes back the arm 19 to release the latch and that by means of the cam-recesses the arm is allowed tomove forward when the gate is closed or fully opened in either direction to permit the latch to engage the keepers. The keeper 7 is formed by a recess in the face of the post 8, which recess is located below a transverse passage 7, which allows the latch to enter and leave the keeper from either side. When either lever is pulled, the gate is tilted slightly, as before described, and as the latch is allowed to have some transverse play in the keeper the gate is permitted to have an initial swing suiiicient to give the cam the requisite movement to force the arm 19 back and cause the upward tilting of the latchlever, whereby the latch is disengaged. The upper wall of the passage 7 is properly inclined on opposite sides of a central point '7 to guide the latch in its movements.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings,

it is thought that the construction, mode of operation, and advantages of our improved swinging gate will be readily apparent without requiring'a more extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the ad vantages of this invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a swinging gate, the combination with suitable keepers located in line with the gate in its closed position and on opposite sides of the gate; of suitable operating means and connections whereby the gate may be swung in either direction to an open or closed position from either side of the gateway, a gravity-latch upon the gate to engage the keepers, a spring-arm connected with the latch, and a cam movable with the gate and adapted to push back the spring-armto eifect the disengagement of the latch, said cam having recesses in which the arm may seat itself at proper times to allow the latch to move into engagement with the keepers, substantially as specified.

2. In a swinging gate, the combinationwith suitable keepers located in line with the gate in its closed position and on opposite sides of the gate; of suitable. operating means and connections, whereby the gate may be swung in either direction to an open or closed position from either side of the gateway, a pivoted L-shaped latch-lever mounted upon the gate and having one of its arms forming a latch to engage the keepers, a spring-arm, a connection between the spring-arm and other arm of the lever, and a cam movable with the gate and adapted to push back the spring-arm to elfect the disengagement of the latch, said cam having recesses in which the arm may seat itself at proper times to allow the latch to move into engagement with the keepers, substantially as and forthe purpose described.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN W. REAMES. CALVIN F. I'IEFFINGTON.

\Vitnesses:

R. B. SHEEHAN, P. 1). SMITH. 

